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This 25th October will be the 12th anniversary of the Takbai tragedy, an incidence that is deeply felt by many of the Patani people, not only the relatives of the victims. Many people from Pattani, Narathiwat, Yala, and Songkhla went to demonstrate in front of a police station in Takbai district, Narathiwat province which borders Malaysia. People were protesting the arrest of six, individuals who had been accused of stealing weapons from the military. The protesters believed that those six people were wrongly accused by the police.
The Thai authority responded to the protesters with...

I have been living in the Pattani town since 1999, when I was a master’s degree student of the Academy of Malay Studies, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. At that time I was doing my research on a comparative study between the local Malay dialect spoken there and the standard Malay mainly used in Malaysia.
I first watched the news on the September 11 attacks in a small restaurant, famous for its nice dish of chicken rice, on the road which leads to Prince of Songkla University, Pattani Campus. I had frequented the restaurant until the owner finally moved out of the region. Now...

Zachary Abuza
There is nothing harder than a peace process after a protracted insurgency. And since so few insurgencies have the military capabilities to fully achieve their goal of statehood, a negotiated settlement is the most likely outcome. But that does not mean that a peace process will succeed. There are many pitfalls. In my forthcoming study of the peace processes in Southeast Asia, I found there are 20 factors that are essential to any peace process between a government and a sub-state insurgent group. While not all need to present in a peace process, without a majority, a peace...

Dissecting the T-O-R
Abu Hafez Al-Hakim
(* The author is a member of MARA Patani Dialogue Panel. The views expressed in this article are personally his and do not reflect the official views of MARA Patani )
The latest meeting of the Join Working Group - Peace Dialogue Process ( JWG-PDP) , the official name of the ( unofficial ) peace talk between the Thai (military) Government (TmG) and the Patani liberation movements (MARA Patani), was on 27 April 2016 in Kuala Lumpur . The Head of Party A, Gen. Aksara Kerdpol informed the meeting that the TmG was not ready to endorse the Terms of...

( This is the English version of "MARA Patani bertemu OIC - satu penjelasan" published in the MARA Patani web page on 18 January 2016 http://www.suaramarapatani.org/2016/01/18/mara-patani-bertemu-oic-satu-p... )
MARA Patani met OIC - a clarification
On 10 January 2016 the Secretary General of the Organisation of Islamic Coorpration(OIC), Dr. Iyad Ameen Madani unofficially met a delegation of MARA Patani in Kuala Lumpur. Dr. Madani was in transit on his working visit to this region.
The much "sensationalised" encounter stemmed from an informal peace dialogue process meeting between MARA...

ONE YEAR of PEACE DIALOGUE - where are we ?
( Abu Hafez Al-Hakim is a member of MARA Patani peace dialogue panel. This article reflects his personal view , not the official view of MARA Patani)
1 December 2015 marks one year of Patani/Southern Thailand peace dialogue process. We might call it dialogue 2. In an official visit to Kuala Lumpur, the Thai Prime Minister Gen. Prayut Chan-O-Cha met his counterpart Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak of Malaysia on 1 December 2014. Both agreed to resume the peace process that was suspended towards the end of 2013 due to political turmoil in Bangkok....

‘Patani with sovereignty and spirit of freedom’
Speech by Prof. Zam: Patani Vision 2020
Sat. 2015 – 07-11 17:51
Imron Sahoh and the editorial group of Deep South Journalism School
On 9th July, 2015, Deep South Watch website publicized a special speech given by Professor Dr. Kamarulzaman Askandar from University Malaysia Sabah (UMS), a coordinator of Southeast Asia Conflict Studies Network (SEACSN) on the topic Arah Tuju Patani (Direction of Patani) at the third forum on Patani / Deep South Vision 2020 (Wawasan Patani 2020 3rd : Arah Tuju Patani), organized by People College at the auditorium...

The Challenge of People’s College with the Opening Common Space for Permanently Peace
Resolution in Patani/Deep South Thailand
Insider’s Missions for Peace
The situation of conflicts in Deep South Thailand/Patani, over a decade until now, is regarded as difficult and challenging proposition for every government. The preceding problem solving is still lack of participation and public sphere for people. Due to the operation of peace talk taken part only by conflict pairs is not enough to find solution in peace process in Deep South/Patani. It is not only Thai authorities and alliance of...

Peace process, not military suppression, the way to tackle Thailand’s southern conflict.
Whether or not the heinous blast at Bangkok’s Erawan Shrine is linked to the violent conflict in Thailand’s predominantly Malay Muslim South, it is vitally important to acknowledge that there is strong evidence to suggest that southern militants are likely to have extended their actions outside their traditional theatre of operation.
It is pertinent to recall the New Year’s Eve bombings in Bangkok, which took place three months after the September 2006 coup. A series of nine explosions went off in...